The plan as governance of fragmentation: the territory of the Vicenza area

Luca Romano

The problems related to planning the territory of the Province of Vicenza are coloured with vaguely paradoxical tones: one of the most extraordinarily open economies of our country, in the process of selective integration with global markets, has its feet stuck in a territorial organization which in the space of just a few years shows alarming signs of wear. The basic reason for this is that the exhausting practice of widespread spontaneousness of growth gives rise to phenomena of congestion and paralysis.